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2022. Keshub Mahindra (1923 – 2023), an outstanding visionary doyen of Indian business, a very good friend of mine. This was the last time I met in his home when he was 98 years old.

2023.  Nicole Zand (1933-2024), famous French journalist of Le Monde, mother of French actor Mathieu Amalric. At my SNBA Salon exhibition to celebrate the 160th anniversary of Société Nationale des Beaux Arts at Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris.  Nicole had been a very good friend and art lover since a long time. She spent some

2015. Anjolie Ela Menon, one of India’s leading contemporary artists with a style of figurative painting that blends elements of Indian miniature painting, European Renaissance and Abstract Expressionism. At her exhibition in New Delhi.

2010. Potter in Shohid Nagar, West Bengal. This is the 3rd generation of potters in my squatted refugee camp where I was born, grew up and lived in upto when I was 14-years-old. To keep myself alert about my early age and economic deprivation then, I regularly go there at least once a year. Such

Jacques Higlin (1940 – 2018) was a great French pop singer. I was highly involved with singers, writers, historians and philosophers in France because I am a great lover of French art and culture. Jacques was a great friend, I loved his songs and he loved my paintings. This picture was taken at my exhibition

Dr CK Pyne. An Indian scientist in the French national scientific laboratory CNRS. An incredible human being, he sheltered me for 2½ months when I arrived in Paris with nothing but $8 in 1973. I landed in France without knowing a single word of French, I only spoke English with a Bengali accent. I knew

2018. Patrice de la Perrier (1944 – 2023), celebrated art critic and Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters in France. He supported me enormously on the style of my art and in the articulation of “Abstract with hidden figurative.”